Princess Diana at Age 50: Newsweek's Computer-Generated Image

Princess Diana's 50th birthday is only days away and to honor the late princess, Newsweek wrote a cover story speculating what her life would like now--complete with digitally-altered images showing what she'd look like in 2011.

Tina Brown, editor-in-chief of Newsweek and Diana biographer, penned the cover story, which also includes an imagined Facebook page kept by the Princess. PEOPLE reports that Brown also predicts Diana would have moved to New York, indulged in Botox and engaged wholeheartedly in the social networking site, Twitter.

"Diana would have been 50 this month," Brown wrote. "What would she have been like? Still great-looking: that's a given."

Shame on you, Newsweek. There's no way you can do the Princess justice here no matter what. How dare you try to guess how she would look today. Truth be known, if we were lucky enough to still have her here she wouldn't look a day older than she did the last time we saw her. Her beauty was timeless and impossible to duplicate. This is not only unfair to her and her family, but also to the newest member of the family, Kate.

"Predicts" is definitely not the right word here. You can't predict a future that has already been taken away. Speculate would have been more accurate; but regardless, it's a futile, empty, and ultimately tasteless undertaking.